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[Rteacher]

I wasn't watching all that intently (distracted by the computer) but I thought that her performance was lackluster at best.

Her lipsinked "Gimme" sex song seemed appropriately vulgar - for an over-the-hill stripper with personal problems...

Sarah Silverman was completely obnoxious, indecent, and further stunk up a Vegas VMA Awards show that was an uninspired production celebrating uninspiring music.

Probably a mistake to show it on AFN - might motivate the Taliban to fight harder against our troops ...

[pkang0202]

[cubanlord]

"it's Britney, bitch..." WOWOWOW! That video/song was phat!...

[Alyallen]

That site's pretty damn funny, smee.

[Rteacher]

She has her own show on "Comedy Central" ...

OK - I'll just (in a rare display of questionable taste by yours truly...) cut-and-paste part of her Wikipedia article:

Career
Silverman received national exposure after earning a role on the 1993�94 season of Saturday Night Live. She was a writer and featured player at the time, but was fired after one season because she wrote only one sketch that survived to dress rehearsal, with none ever airing. Bob Odenkirk, a former SNL writer who knew her from her stand-up act in Los Angeles, explained why she was fired:[5] "I could see how it wouldn't work at SNL because she's got her own voice, she's very much Sarah Silverman all the time. She can play a character but she doesn't disappear into the character�- she makes the character her." Silverman claims being fired by SNL in an undignified manner (via fax), upset her greatly. The situation was parodied when she appeared on The Larry Sanders Show episode "The New Writer", in which she plays Sander's new staff writer, whose jokes are not used because of chauvinism (and associated bias of the male chief comedy writer), who favors the jokes of his male co-writers. She had a recurring role on Larry Sanders for the last several seasons.

Silverman worked on the HBO sketch comedy show Mr. Show with Bob and David, where she was a featured performer. She made guest appearances on such programs as the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Money", the two-part time-travel episode "Future's End" of Star Trek: Voyager and as a series regular on the TV show Greg the Bunny (2002), playing serious characters, as well as the voice of character "Hadassah Guberman" on the salacious puppet television comedy Crank Yankers. She has also had small parts in films such as There's Something About Mary, Say It Isn't So, School of Rock, The Way of the Gun, Overnight Delivery, Screwed, Heartbreakers, Evolution, School for Scoundrels and Rent, playing a mixture of comic and serious roles. On November 11, 2005, her stand-up comedy act (one-woman show) was released as a feature film, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic. As part of the publicity campaign surrounding the film, Silverman made several high profile appearances, including online in Slate, as the cover subject of Heeb magazine, and performing on the Comedy Central roasts of Pamela Anderson and Hugh Hefner.

She was a guest star in a second season episode of the USA cable program Monk, playing an obsessed fan of a fictional television detective. The show therefore featured a good deal of meta-humor, of which she had a core part. She returned as the same character in the sixth season premiere. According to the audio commentary on the Clerks 2 DVD, director Kevin Smith offered her the role that eventually went to Rosario Dawson, but she turned it down out of fear of being typecast in "girlfriend roles." However, she told Smith the role was "really funny" and mentioned that if the role of Randal Graves was being offered to her she "would do it in a heartbeat".

On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Silverman parodied sketches from Chappelle's Show, from the perspective of what would happen if she played Rick James, Tyrone, or the Pilot Boy Productions-like logo called 'Pilot Girl Productions'. This segment is based on a popular rumor that Silverman was a planned replacement for Dave Chappelle after the apparent demise of his popular television show Chappelle's Show.

Silverman made the cover of London's March 12, 2006 Sunday Observer magazine with an article titled "If women aren't funny, how come the world's hottest, most controversial comedian is female?"[6]

In 2005, she played a therapist in a skit session with Josh Homme of the band Queens of the Stone Age. This interview was on the Queens of the Stone Age bonus DVD of their album Lullabies to Paralyze. In 2006, she placed #50 in the annual Maxim magazine List.[7] In 2007, she placed #29 and appeared on the cover of Maxim's Hot 100 List issue.

On June 3, 2007, Silverman hosted the MTV Movie Awards. During her opening act, she commented on Paris Hilton's then-upcoming jail sentence with Paris Hilton being in attendance: "In a couple of days, Paris Hilton is going to jail [...] As a matter of fact, I heard that to make her feel more comfortable in prison, the guards are going to paint the bars to look like penises. I think it is wrong, too. I just worry she is going to break her teeth on those things."


[edit] Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
On November 11, 2005, Silverman's concert movie, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic was released. Based on her one-woman show of the same name, it was directed by Liam Lynch and distributed by Roadside Attractions. Receiving positive reviews, it made $124,475 on its opening weekend, showing on seven screens. Its performance led to an expanded release in as many as 57 theaters, resulting in a box office take of more than $1.3 million.[8] The movie released on DVD on June 6, 2006, with an official soundtrack released on the same day. The soundtrack featured songs in the movie, some of her standup from the movie, and some previously unreleased songs.[9]


[edit] The Sarah Silverman Program
Silverman's own sitcom, The Sarah Silverman Program, debuted on Comedy Central on February 1, 2007. It is similar to the popular The Larry Sanders Show in that it presents a fictionalized version of the actress.[10]

The show proved to be a ratings success, scoring the highest premiere ratings that a Comedy Central show had in three years, with 1.8 million viewers and the highest 18�49 rating of the night on cable.


[edit] Controversies
Sarah Silverman with Jesus Dress Up magnets, April 28, 2006.Silverman caused a brief controversy after using the ethnic slur "chink" in an interview on the July 11, 2001 episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In the interview, Silverman explained that a friend had advised her on how to avoid jury duty by writing a racial slur on the selection form, "something inappropriate, like 'I hate chinks'." However, Silverman said that she ultimately decided that she did not want to be thought of as a racist, so she said, "I wrote 'I love chinks' � and who doesn't?" Even though Silverman claimed to be satirizing the racist thought process, Guy Aoki, co-founder and head of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA), objected to her use of the slur, saying that NBC's airing of it was inexcusable.[11] NBC and O'Brien issued an apology, but Silverman did not, later appearing on Politically Incorrect on July 26, and August 22, 2001. During the former episode, actress Kelly Hu stated that she understood the point of the joke, and did not object to it, and Silverman questioned Aoki's sincerity, accusing him of exploiting the opportunity for publicity.[12] During the latter episode, Aoki appeared with Silverman, and stated that he did not accept Silverman's explanation, saying that it was not successful satire, that she should have substituted "chink" with "Chinese person", and that comedians should consult with groups such as his before performing such material.[13] Silverman stated in an interviewon NPR's Fresh Air that she was asked to repeat the joke on Politically Incorrect, among other places, but she eventually felt compelled to drop the joke from her act because she felt it was becoming stale. [9]

Silverman has since turned the complaint into grist for her stand-up act, saying that the experience helped teach her the important lesson that racism is bad: "And I mean bad, like in that Black way." Her stand-up act is similarly charged with outrageously ironic racist statements, delivered in a serious manner:

"Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who believe it was the Blacks."
"I was raped by a doctor, which is so bittersweet for a Jewish girl."
"Everyone knows that the best time to get pregnant is when you're a Black teenager."
"�Nazis are assholes,� she repeats for added effect. �They�re cute when they�re little, though. Why can�t they just stay small?�"
Her smile disappears. "But the Holocaust isn�t always funny. And I will tell you something that I truly believe: That if Black people were in Germany during World War II, the Holocaust would've never happened." She pauses. "Or, not to Jews�"

""I dated a Mexican guy for a while. But, I had to end it -- everytime we had sex I had diarrhea for, like, a week."
(At the MTV VMA's) "...because Jews are like snowflakes." (Referring to the Jews who were burned in the Holocaust and people watching thought it was snowing.)

Another classic snapshot of Silverman is what Paul Provenza called a "disconcerting and sexual" performance of the infamous joke called The Aristocrats in his documentary of the same name. In her version of the joke she accuses Joe Franklin of raping her, in a deadpan manner. On the DVD release of the film, Provenza joked that Silverman had planned a publicity stunt in which she filed rape charges against Franklin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Silverman

[pkang0202]

Comedy in the US has now hit an all time low.

[RACETRAITOR]

[Alyallen]

[jinju]

Sarah Silverman: cesspool comedy.

And no Racetraitor, she isnt hot, she has a face like a horse and an awful voice. Shes butt ugly. She failed at SNL and lets face it, the show was not exactly at the height of its run at the time.

[igotthisguitar]

Ethnic slur: "chink"?

Hmmmmmm ... and what ethnicity approximately is Ms. Sliverman?

[jinju]

[endofthewor1d]

i think she's pretty funny and pretty hot. but both her looks and her humor take some warming up to.

[Alias]

Britney still looks hot. Especially after two kids.

[flakfizer]

[SeoulShakin]

Anyone have a link to Britney's performance? It's all people are talking about, so I'd like to see it. Youtube has nothing apparently.